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Not exactly: Not all of the nutrients are in the juice. Take an orange for example…

The pulp is full of fiber which you would get little to none of from just the juice. Most juicers strain the juice before it comes out of the machine, so you lose a great deal of the nutritional value from the “meat” of the fruit.

When I owned a Vita-Mix, which is never referred to as either a “juicer” or “blender,” I was told that if one wanted to prepare orange juice, for example, that the ENTIRE ORANGE should be inserted into the machine.

The peeling (rind) and seeds added to, and enhanced the flavor of the juice, making it taste much better, IMHO.

Actually, juice usually provides more nutrients and enzymes than whole fruits and vegetables as the juicing process unlocks the nutrients and enzymes that are trapped within the fiber. Here’s a very good article that describes the benefits of juicing.

I hope I’m not being some kind of wise guy, but if you would have actually read the article you would have read that there are nutrients trapped in undigestable fiber: “Plus, since juicing removes the indigestible fiber, these nutrients are available to the body in much larger quantities than if the piece of fruit or vegetable was eaten whole. For example, because many of the nutrients are trapped in the fiber, when you eat a raw carrot, you are only able to assimilate about 1% of the available beta carotene. When a carrot is juiced, removing the fiber, nearly 100% of the beta carotene can be assimilated.”

have a look at www.greenstar.com have used this juicer for years, it’s expensive but well worth the cost, even handles wheat grass, my kids hardly touch cooked veg but regularly drink juice of kale, carrots, celery etc

in most cases no. eating the whole fruit gets you more benefits from all that pulpy fibrous goodness. i think in some of the harder veggies though you may get more benefits because the juice is easier to digest than say a hard raw carrot. it the same reasoning behind why most fuits and veg are more nutritous raw, but some are more easily digested when cooked.

My dietician says I can’t drink the juices because the concentrated nature of the drink adds a lot of calories and sugars. Instead of getting the one orange, you get the equivalent of 6 of them, with 6x the sugar, and so on.